OnLive: Tomorrow's Gaming Today (Discussion, Links and News)

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This week is the start of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the event today, OnLive announced some new features that their users have been waiting for, for quite some time.

Today they announced the release of their free, OnLive Desktop app. The app will be available on iPad, Android devices, PCs, Macs and TVs. However, it will initially only be available for the iPad. The Desktop App will be available for download in the iTunes App Store starting on Thursday in the United States, and soon thereafter in the UK.

The app will include access to full-featured, media-rich Windows 7 applications. These applications will be remotely hosted on powerful PC servers in the cloud, similar to those that OnLive currently uses for its cloud gaming service.

“OnLive Desktop delivers a seamless Windows desktop experience, with instant response multi-touch gestures, together with a full on-screen Windows keyboard and handwriting recognition, enabling complete and convenient viewing and editing of even the most complex documents,” said OnLive in a statement, earlier today. “Rich media, such as video, animation, slide transitions and even PC games, never before practical via remote desktop delivery, run fluidly and dynamically with instant-action interactivity. OnLive Desktop makes remote feel local”

There is a free version as well as a paid version of the new OnLive Desktop App. The free version will include 2 GB of cloud storage. It will also include Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus several other Windows utilities and touch games.

Using instant-response touch gestures such as pinch and zoom, flick to scroll, drag, drop and Aero snap, users will be able to quickly and easily navigate files, open, edit and save the ones they need, and store them securely in the cloud for access from any device through a simple Web interface.

Word Documents
PC apps have full desktop functionality: Word documents can be created and edited with full redline and commenting capability, using a Windows touch-screen keyboard, handwriting recognition or Bluetooth keyboard.

PowerPoint Presentation
PowerPoint presentations can be created with rich graphics, videos and animated slide transitions, and even presented directly from the iPad, either onscreen or via an external monitor.

Excel
Data can be updated and analyzed instantly in Excel, translated into graphs and transferred into presentation documents.

“OnLive Desktop is the first app to deliver a no-compromise, media-rich Windows desktop experience to iPad, opening up powerful new possibilities for consumers and businesses,” said OnLive Founder and CEO, Steve Perlman. “iPad users will now be able to simply and securely view and edit cloud-hosted documents with full featured Windows desktop applications like Microsoft Office, just as if they were using a local high-performance PC. Multi-touch gestures respond instantly and smoothly, while HD videos, animations and PC video games—never before usable on a remote desktop—play seamlessly.”

OnLive Desktop Pro is coming soon, with 50 GB of cloud storage, priority access, full-featured cloud-accelerated web browsing, additional PC apps, and other OnLive-unique features for $9.99/month (US).

OnLive Web Browser
OnLive is also announcing the launch of the cloud based web browser, which has been much anticipated by many OnLive users. It was initially supposed to be released this past summer, but due to overwhelming demand for OnLive’s service as a whole, it was pushed back. The cloud web browser is said to accelerate browsing speeds, especially on smartphones and tablets. For now it will only be made available in the $9.99/month plan when it released.

OnLive is also announcing their “Enterprise” plan, meant for businesses and organizations of any size, seeking centralized, secure computing resources, as well as Independent Software Vendors seeking to deliver custom applications. With OnLive Enterprise, IT departments have full control of user entitlements/access privileges to both retail and ISV applications, while enabling users to access the same applications through any device.

An example of the OnLive Entreprise plan was provided by OnLive

“A hospital can entitle different levels of records access to doctors, receptionists and patients, with full privacy, whether data is viewed on a smartphone, computer, on an easily-sterilized tablet in an examining room, or even on a hospital room TV. No user data is left behind on any device, so records remain secure if a device is lost or stolen.”

OnLive Desktop Pro and Enterprise support exclusive OnLive collaborative services. Building on the same proven technology as the massive spectating Arena of the OnLive Game Service, OnLive securely enables as many as thousands of simultaneous users to view one or many OnLive Desktops from any device, with live spectating and group chat, and multi-user control. Whether using OnLive collaborative services as a shared document reader or virtual whiteboard in a small workgroups, for chatting over home videos among far-flung family members, or for lecturing with Q&A to an audience of thousands of students around the world, OnLive provides instant, media-rich collaboration.

The OnLive Desktop iPad app will be available Thursday to U.S. customers for free in the iTunes App Store, and will be released soon in the UK. Customers are encouraged to sign up early for their free OnLive account, available today at desktop.onlive.com.

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http://desktop.onlive.com/

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http://desktop.onlive.com/

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WHERE'S MAH ANDROID APP?!

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WHERE'S MAH ANDROID APP?!

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OnLive Desktop App is Ranked the Top Free iPad App Download – Most Innovative App Ever?

Launching just two days ago, the OnLive Desktop app has quickly gone from being an unknown productivity application by most iPad owners, to becoming ranked as the top free app for the iPad in the Apple iTunes Store.

The app which allows iPad owners to access a virtual Windows desktop, where they can run applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Paint, Window’s Media Player, several entertaining Windows based games, and more, is free to download, and also free to use (free version comes with 2GB of storage, future pro version will allow for more options and 50GB of storage).

“The app is truly groundbreaking,” said iOS developer Brian Knoles told OnLiveFans.com. “It is the most innovative app in the iTunes store to date, in my opinion.”

Many iPad owners would agree. Never before has anyone been able to run a Windows 7 desktop so smoothly and flawlessly, entirely in the cloud, before this app was released.

“Once OnLive releases the app for other devices such as Android, PC, Mac, and TVs, we will see true cloud computing come to life, like it never has been before,” said Knoles.

Cloud computing now-a-days is a term used to describe a broad range of applications that run partially in the cloud. OnLive has become a true cloud solution that runs 100% in the cloud, and can be accessed no matter where you are in the US, as long as there is a 1MB/sec internet connection available.

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The wife recently bought me an Acer Iconia android tablet. Pretty cool. I noticed it has a full sized USB port on the side, and I got an idea...

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SEGA Dreamcast Collection is Coming to the OnLive PlayPack on Tuesday
By: Ed Krassenstein

During his weekly livecast, OnLive Community Manager, Matt Jensen informed the community that on this coming Tuesday, OnLive will be releasing a special Dreamcast Collection to the OnLive PlayPack.

The 4 games that will be released to OnLive on Tuesday are as follows:

Crazy Taxi

Sonic Adventure

Space Channel 5 Part 2

SEGA Bass Fishing

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ok im pretty hyped for Sonic Adventure if im honest lol, should be nice =]

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OnLive Half-Term Sale Discounts Over 45 Games Up to 82% Off in the UK
By: Maurice Handler

OnLive Half Term Sale

OnLive announced their “Half-Term Sale” today with discounts of up to 75% off (82% off for PlayPack subscribers) on over 45 different games. The majority of these games are discounted 75% off, while a few others are on sale for 50% off. This sale will run from now until Monday in the United Kingdom.

Here is a list of all of the games that are currently on sale. OnLive PlayPack members can take an additional 30% off these already reduced prices, which increase the total discount to over 82% Off.

- Batman: Arkham City – £17.49
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution – £17.49
- F.E.A.R. 3 – £7.50
- Warhammer 40K: Space Marine – £10.20
- Lord of the Rings: War in the North – £14.99
- Borderland: Game of the Year Edition – £5.00
- Mafia II – £3.75
- Super Street Figher IV Arcade Edition – £14.99
- Red Faction: Armageddon – £7.59
- Orcs Must Die – £3.00
- Just Cause 2 – £4.76
- Divinity II The Dragon Knight Saga – £5.00
- NBA 2K11 – £3.75
- A Kingdom for Keflings – £1.62
- Metro 2033 – £5.00
- Space Pirates and Zombies – £3.49
- Red Faction: Guerrilla – £3.75
- Aliens Vs. Predator – £3.75
- Alpha Protocol – £3.75
- Dark Void – £1.62
- MLB 2K11 – £3.75
- MX vs ATV Reflex – £3.75
- Darksiders – £5.00
- Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light – £2.50
- Braid – £1.62
- LEGO Batman – £2.50
- F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin – £2.50
- Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II Chaos Rising – £5.00
- Amnesia: The Dar Descent – £3.50
- The Ball – £3.75
- Virtua Tennis 2009 – £2.50
- Duke Nukem Forever – £3.75
- Shatter – £1.50
- Osmos – £1.62
- Trine – £3.75
- Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days – £3.75
- Royal Envoy – £3.50
- Fishdom 2 – £3.50
- MLB 2K10 – £3.75
- NBA 2K10 – £2.50
- AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – £1.62
- Dock Clock – £1.74
- Remington Super Slam Hunting: Africa – £3.50
- Madballs in Babo: Invasion – £1.75
- Defense Grid Gold – £2.50
- The Maw – £1.62
- Puzzle Chronicles – £2.00
- SAW – £9.99

A similar sale is expected in the US for Presidents Day Weekend, so stay tuned!

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Flash Now Available on the iPad – OnLive Desktop Plus Brings Accelerated Web Browsing and Much More
By: Ed Krassenstein

OnLive Desktop PlusOnLive has just announced today that they are launching OnLive™ Desktop Plus. It brings gigabit-speed accelerated web browsing with full Adobe® Flash® to the Apple iPad, and soon to other devices such as Android, PC, Mac, TVs and monitors.

Back on January 12, OnLive launched their free desktop app for the iPad. It included 2 GB of secure cloud storage, as well as a complementary copy of Microsoft Office software – Word, Excel & PowerPoint. What the cloud computing company has released today is OnLive Desktop Plus, which takes all of the features of the free desktop app and adds to it the ability to use the new cloud-accelerated web browser, as well a full version of Adobe Flash and Acrobat PDF plug-ins. OnLive Desktop Plus will is now available for $4.99/month.

“Experiencing a full Flash-enabled Web experience at gigabit speeds on iPad is nothing short of breathtaking, and OnLive Desktop Plus is your ticket to ride,” said Steve Perlman, OnLive Founder and CEO. “Combine that with OnLive Desktop’s full-featured Microsoft Office and Adobe Reader PC applications and not only do you have the world’s fastest mobile browser, but the world’s most powerful productivity tools literally at your fingertips.”

What’s So Great About OnLive Desktop Plus?
- iPads Can Run Flash - It has long been a complaint of many iPad users that they could not run Flash via their device. This is no longer an issue with an OnLive Desktop Plus account. Not only do iPads become 100% Flash compatible, but they also become the world’s fastest mobile Flash players.
- OnLive’s Incredible Speeds – It doesn’t matter if you are connecting to the internet over Wi-Fi or a 4G LTE connection (rumored to be coming to the iPad 3 soon), the most complex Flash based websites will load in just seconds. Users will be able to download a 50 megabyte file from cloud storage services such as Dropbox or even a large attachment from their email account in less than 1 second.
- Less Data Usage… What?! – While many people are afraid to use OnLive Desktop due to data restrictions that their ISP may limit them to, this really is not the case. In fact, it is quite the opposite. OnLive Desktop Plus can actually reduce data usage when browsing the internet. This is because only the top layer of the visible part of a website is ever sent over the local connection. OnLive delivers to you what you can see and hear, but not everything that is needed in the background processes. This means that it has potential to reduce data usage by a factor of 10 or more.

In addition to the release of OnLive Desktop Plus, OnLive is also adding Adobe Reader to the free version of their desktop app. However, free users will not have the ability to browse the internet, or run Flash from their iPads.

No date has been given, as to when we can expect to see OnLive Desktop released for Android tablets, PCs, or TVs. However, OnLive expects it to be sometime in the near future. There is also still no word on when the app will be available in the UK or other countries.

You can set up your OnLive Desktop account at http://www.desktop.onlive.com.

Here is what is included with the Free OnLive Desktop Account, today’s release of OnLive Desktop Plus, and future release of OnLive Desktop Pro, and OnLive Enterprise (no release date provided):

OnLive Desktop Standard, FREE!—Available Now
- As-available² access to OnLive Desktop, with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Reader
- 2 GB of secure cloud storage, appearing as your Documents folder on OnLive Desktop
OnLive Desktop Plus, $4.99/month—Available Now
- All features of OnLive Desktop Standard and…
- Priority access to OnLive Desktop
- Cloud-accelerated Web browser, with:
– Lightning-fast transfer of Web mail attachments (e.g., from Gmail, Yahoo! Mail) and cloud storage files (e.g., from Dropbox)
– Full Adobe Flash and Acrobat® PDF plug-ins
OnLive Desktop Pro, starting at $9.99/month—Coming Soon
- All features of OnLive Desktop Plus and…
- 50 GB of secure cloud storage, appearing as your Documents folder on OnLive Desktop
- Ability to customize OnLive Desktop with additional PC applications
- OnLive collaborative services—including live desktop spectating and desktop sharing with voice chat for
small groups or thousands of simultaneous users
OnLive Enterprise (contact [email protected] for more information)
- IT-managed OnLive Desktops for businesses and organizations
- Available for custom integration by independent software vendors, consultants
- OnLive collaborative services—including live desktop spectating and desktop sharing with voice chat for
small groups or thousands of simultaneous users

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On January 12, OnLive released their desktop app in the Apple App Store. It came as a surprise to many people that the Android App was not released at the same time.

Today, over a month and a half later, the OnLive Desktop App has been released in the Android Market. The app, which gives users access to a Windows 7 Desktop on their tablet, can be downloaded for free now at https://market.android.com/details?i...onlive.desktop. While the app is now available in the Android Market, many users are saying that their devices are shown as being “not compatible”. OnLive has not yet made an official announcement on this, so it’s possible that they are waiting to do so before allowing it to be accessed on all Android devices.

Just last week OnLive also introduced their new OnLive Desktop Plus, which is a $4.99/month subscription plan that gives users access to a cloud based web browser and Adobe Flash within the Windows Desktop. This is also now available for Android tablet owners, although Flash is something that many Android users already have access to.

The free version of OnLive Desktop comes with Microsoft Office, as well as several other applications. Users also get 2GB of cloud storage absolutely free of charge. Users may sign up for a Free OnLive Desktop account at desktop.onlive.com.

If you are an Android Tablet owner and you’ve been waiting to access software as comprehensive as Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, this free Android app may just be right for you.

While the app is only available in the United States at this time, it is expected to be released soon in the UK as well. It is also going to be made available on PC, Mac, and TVs in the near future.

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OnLive is at it once again with another incredible sale. This time it is a sale that brings many past Independent Games Festival greats to the service for up to 75% off their normal prices. There are currently 8 different indie games on sale, all for 75% off, with the exception of newly added game LIMBO. LIMBO is available for 50% off its normal price.

Here is a list of the current games that are currently available at discoutned prices, from today through Sunday, March 11.

AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – $2.50 / £1.62
Amnesia: The Dark Descent – $5.00 / £3.50
Bastion – $3.75 / £2.87
Braid – $2.50 / £1.62
LIMBO – $4.99 / £3.49
Osmos – $2.50 / £1.62
Shatter – $2.25 / £1.50
World of Goo – $2.50 / £1.62

OnLive PlayPack subscribers can take an additional 30% off these prices.

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Bah.
More reasons why I actually need a way to pay for these games.

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Bah.
More reasons why I actually need a way to pay for these games.

It's time to find a way.